Geoff Keeling

I am a Staff Research Scientist and philosopher at Google. I work on the ethical and societal impacts of artificial general intelligence including questions about alignment, consciousness, mainipulation, trust, and human-AI relationships.

I led the 2024 Google DeepMind report on the Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants alongside Iason Gabriel and Arianna Manzini. Our report articulated a research agenda for assessing the ethical dimensions of agentic AI assistants. It was cited over 100 times in its first year including in Yoshua Bengio’s International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, while also being covered by global media outlets such as WIRED, the Verge and the Information. I also led Google’s first empirical study on machine sentience with Winnie Street in collaboration with Jonathan Birch’s lab at the London School of Economics. Our research received broad media coverage including feature articles in Scientific American and Futurism.

Before Google, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University under Rob Reich, where I had a joint appointment between the Institute for Human-Centered AI and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. With Alex Tamkin, I successfully lobbied for and co-led the AI Safety chapter of the 2021 report on the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models. The report has over 5,000 citations and was covered by both Forbes and the Economist.

In addition to my role at Google, I am a Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

Here is my CV.

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